New Coldplay CD: “Different”
Rolling Stone magazine’s Evan Serpick recently visited Coldplay in their northern London recording studio where they’re hammering away at their still-untitled fourth album, due in May. The band teamed up with legendary producer Brian Eno and pointedly tried to remove all outside influences this time around. “We felt like the first three albums were a trilogy, and we finished that,†says guitarist Johnny Buckland. “So we wanted to do something different.â€â€œWhether or not it’s good, we certainly started to use more colors,†says frontman Chris Martin. “It’s impossible to please everybody, and it took us a while to learn that.†The tracks Serpick heard were considerably rougher than songs on Coldplay’s past albums, and tackled darker lyrical themes, as well. For more from the band and an early look at nine songs that may appear on the record, click here.
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The Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends has, to date, been the number-one-selling album of the world. In the USA, it sold 316,000 albums in its first day, and 720,000 in its first week. In the UK, the album sold 302,074 copies in 3 days, debutin…